Performance pay, competitiveness, and the gender wage gap: Evidence from the United States

Andrew McGee, Peter McGee and Jessica Pan

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 128, issue C, 35-38

Abstract: We show that women in the NLSY79 and NLSY97 are less likely than men to receive competitive compensation. The portion of the gender wage gap explained by compensation schemes is small in the NLSY79 but somewhat larger in the NLSY97.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; Competitiveness; Performance pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.01.004

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